Compendium of chronology translated from the Latin of John Le Clerc beginning from the creation of the world to the reign of Charlemain - 1733, 1733.

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Le Clerc, Jean, 1675-1736. Compendium of chronology translated from the Latin of John Le Clerc beginning from the creation of the world to the reign of Charlemain - 1733, 1733.

Compendium of chronology translated from the Latin of John Le Clerc beginning from the creation of the world to the reign of Charlemain - 1733, 1733.

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Anonymous manuscript translation of Le Clerc's "Compendium historiae universalis," which was first published in Amsterdam in 1698. A chronologically-arranged historiography, most entries concerning and referencing Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman events and sources, arranged around significant events into 11 epochs: the biblical creation account of Genesis, the Great Flood, Abraham's call, the giving of the Law to Moses, the Trojan War, the building of the 1st Temple in Jerusalem, the 1st Olympiad, the return from Babylonian captivity of the Jews, the conquest of Carthage, the birth of Christ, the conversion of Constantine, and the reign of Charlemagne.

1 v. (259 p.) ; 19 x 13 cm.

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